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Subject: Re: Measuring playing strength

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 21:30:41 12/30/99

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On December 30, 1999 at 22:58:30, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 30, 1999 at 22:27:43, hgkjhg wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>>may be programs shouldn't rely on their books so much.  They should use only
>>solid lines and if they're truly the best, the results will show that.


Isn't the Nunn's Test like what you proposed? Remove the opening books and make
the programs play from standard opening positions..Similar to your idea of
having a program that can score 50% or more from all types of openings..

But it seems to me that even this is a little artifical, in real Life you don't
insist that Kasparov score  50% over Anand from VARIOUS open,closed whatever
opening to say that Kasparov is better than Anand..

Of course if Kasparov could do that Great..But I think no one not even Kasparov
is that Good with a "Universal" style that suits all openings..What more a mere
computer program...







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